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As 2014 winds to an end, it's time to test your memory and see if you were paying attention to the passing parade of pop culture. See how you do. Challenge your friends. And always pay attention to pop culture. (To take the quiz interactively, click here.) 1. In January, a nationwide shortage of what food item caused a small-scale panic among American snackers? (a.)Velveeta cheese (b.)Twinkies (c.)Marshmallows (d.)Cocktail weiners 2. What Midwestern city became a hot topic on social media outlets after Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning began using it as his key word while calling signals during the NFL playoffs? (a.)Topeka (b.)Kankakee (c.)Omaha ...

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As 2014 winds to an end, it's time to test your memory and see if you were paying attention to the passing parade of pop culture.
See how you do.
Challenge your friends.
And always pay attention to pop culture. (To take the quiz interactively, click...

Cooler heads know better than to jump to sweeping conclusions about the state of the nation immediately after an election. Elections seem to be more useful as a reminder that American voters will make up their minds based on what's important to them,...

Balance of powerDuring his first six years in the White House, President Obama continuously reminded us of his warped sense of the constitutional balance of power in Washington. When the legislature did not see things his way, he governed by...

WASHINGTON Two appeals courts on Tuesday split over the Affordable Care Act, reaching different conclusions about whether tax credits can help consumers buy coverage in the 36 states that use the federal health insurance marketplace, including...

Sen, Marco Rubio, R-Fla., plansto announce his candidacy forpresident on April 13 in Miami, two Republican sources said Saturday. That could make Rubio the third Republican senator to enter his party's presidential nomination contest. Sen. Ted Cruz of...

WASHINGTON "Vote-a-rama" is over. The Senate has passed a budget resolution. The damage and glory to possible 2016 presidential candidates, and to their agendas, iscoming into view. The 2016 fiscal year budget, and its companion flurry of...

WASHINGTON Four potential White House hopefuls were forced to take stands on an array of hot-button issues late Thursday and into Friday as the battle for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination played itself out on the Senate floor. At 3:29...

MERRIMACK, N.H. Ted Cruz, the first and so far only major candidate for president, swept into New Hampshire on Friday upbeat, revved, and eager to embrace the outsider label he's cultivated since erupting on the national scene three years ago. ...

In the political uproar over Common Core, various myths are peddled as fact. Do the learning standards really mean the federal government is serving as a "national school board," as Sen. Marco Rubio says? That's hard to square with the reality...

WASHINGTON Texas Sen. Ted Cruz isn't the only ardent critic of Obamacare in Congress who is signing up for health coverage under a law he's vowed to repeal. Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp, chairman of the Tea Party Caucus in the U.S. House of...

WASHINGTON On Wednesday, Scott Walker became the latest potential Republican presidential candidate to say he would reject a nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran if it's not approved by Congress. Speaking on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, the Wisconsin...

Sen. Ted Cruz jumped into the 2016 presidential race Monday in the same way he intends to run his campaign: upstaging rival Republicans with a splashy, impassioned speech that sought to drag the national conversation further to the right than many in...

Sen. Ted Cruz could soon be buying his family's health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act, a law the Republican presidential candidate has vowed to repeal should he win the White House. Cruz formally launched his presidential campaign on...

GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz could soon be buying his family's health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act he has vowed to dismantle. Cruz, whose Senate filibuster against the law he derides as “Obamacare” led to a partial government...

Launching his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas asked Christian conservative voters to imagine a United States without the IRS, Obamacare or abortion rights — and to imagine they can make that happen by supporting him....

Ted Cruz gives a rousing speech. The former college debate champion can energize a crowd of 10,000 evangelicals at a basketball arena as easily as he can captivate a few dozen inside a New Hampshire cafeteria. He's proven in the Senate he's got the...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday he won't rush to make up his mind about whether to run for the White House, and said Texas Senator Ted Cruz's first-out-the-gate announcement is not a factor in his timing. Speaking on his monthly radio show, the...

WASHINGTON Ted Cruz has launched his presidential campaign after just 27 months in the Senate, though it has been a tenure marked by hard-line conservative policies, one of the longest speeches in Senate history and an effort to undermine President...

WASHINGTON Ted Cruz is known for one thing: He's relentlessly opposed to President Barack Obama, even if it means shutting down the government to reverse him. Now as he launches his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, the senator...

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has become the first major candidate for president, kicking off what's expected to be a rush over the next few weeks of more than a dozen White House hopefuls into the 2016 campaign. "I am running for president and I...